MN SF3251

Excludes facilities operated by the Minnesota sex offender program from accepting emergency hold admissions, while requiring examiners to obtain and consider information from persons who brought the proposed patient to the facility.

Prohibits transfer to voluntary status, provisional discharge, and commissioner-ordered transfers for patients committed as sexually dangerous persons or with sexual psychopathic personalities.

Establishes victim notification requirements for county attorneys filing commitment petitions and for treatment facility heads before discharge or release, with victims able to submit written statements regarding release decisions.

Clarifies that "sexual psychopathic personality" includes individuals committed as "psychopathic personality" under prior Minnesota law, and applies the same commitment procedures and restrictions to both sexually dangerous persons and sexual psychopathic personalities.

Requires the judicial appeal panel to review special review board recommendations for reduction in custody, provisional discharge, or discharge, with no reduction in custody effective until 15 days after the judicial appeal panel's order.